http://www.californiadroughtupdate.org/pdf/20161208-California-Drought-Update.pdf
Other commitments this week require this report to be brief.
As we approach January 20 and the inauguration of a new President, it appears that the outgoing President’s legacy will not last beyond that date. But, it must be emphasized that it is not just in the United States that the potential for a dramatic shift is upon us, but as reported in the article from LaRouche PAC on December 5, “The New Paradigm Is the Dominant Dynamic In the World; Italy Delivers Smashing Defeat to EU Oligarchy.” Here is the link and the first paragraph of the article:
December 5, 2016
On November 9, 2016, the morning after the dramatic U.S. presidential election—when Trump’s victory left most analysts at home and abroad either babbling nonsense or in stunned silence— Lyndon LaRouche stated clearly that Trump’s victory was part of a global, not a local or national process, in which the entire edifice of globalization and free trade was crumbling. LaRouche said that nothing is yet a settled question, and that the process is being steered by Presidents Putin of Russia and Xi of China, and by the global alternative that they are presenting—an alternative based on policies for which Lyndon and Helga LaRouche have long fought.
Now, as for the drought. It is raining as I write, and more shall come down over the weekend, at least here in Oakland. The first two months of the water year in the northern Sierras and even in the northern part of the Valley has seen almost 200 percent of the normal precipitation. Nice, but, as one article I cite below cautions, a start, especially in California, tells us little or nothing about what the rest of the winter shall bring.
And as the U.S. Drought Monitor shows, three-quarters of the state remains in “Severe Drought” or worse.
The last item in this week’s report on the proposed desalination plant at Huntington Beach points to how damn damaging the last decades of environmentalist ideology have been. Years are wasted in moving forward with projects due to the backward thinking about man’s role in the biosphere. Reducing the relationship of mankind to one of being in conflict with nature ignores the reality that mankind, too, is a natural part of the biosphere and his destiny is to reshape all around him. How? And in what manner? Since the biosphere, and our universe generally, is an always developing and evolving process, mankind, as the only deliberately conscious being, has the power to guide its development to ever an evermore productive and complex platform.
The best understanding of these ideas can be found in the writings of Vladimir Vernadsky, the early 20th Century Russia-Ukrainian biogeophysicist. Here is a link to many of his writings: https://larouchepac.com/vernadsky
